Pictomania

Pictomania is a board game for 3–6 players. It plays in 25 minutes and is meant for ages 9 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 6. It is rated 6.6 out of 10 by 26 Ludoya reviewers. The cheapest copy in stock is $19.95 (United States).

A simultaneous drawing-and-guessing party game where every player is both illustrator and guesser at once. Play proceeds over five rounds. At the start of each round six cards with multiple word options are revealed, and each player receives a symbol and number that indicate which word they must draw. All players begin drawing simultaneously and may place a single guess on any other player’s drawing; guesses are final. When players finish they take bonus tokens from the center until the last token is claimed, then reveal drawings and resolve guesses. Correct early guesses score more, missed guesses are penalized, and a “black sheep” mechanic applies negative points to the worst guesser. Scores are tallied each round; highest total after five rounds wins.

Players: 3–6 best 6
Playing time: 25 min
Age: 9+
Complexity: 1.5 / 5

6.6 on Ludoya from $19.95Real-timeDrawing

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About the game

Design: Vlaada Chvátil
Art: Andreas Resch

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Pictomania: Geek Edition2012

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218
Plays logged: 254
Players: 40m 47s
Average play: 44
In collections: 6
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6.6/10

from 26 Ludoya reviews

Benjamín Amorín8.0
Hilarious game that can remind to Dixit, in a less artistic way. It's not about drawing well it's about drawing fast and clear. Great sensations
Evan4.6
In the first round of this game, we used the basic deck of cards, and people were pretty much done with the game after that. Everyone except the player who brought it hated the time pressure of needing to both draw, look at the cards with the possible word choices and then guess at in the same phase. For the second round, we whipped out the highest level of difficult cards. That's when the game changed from frustrating to fun. The high level cards are all either abstract concepts, or they are super similar to other words. For example one card had the drawing prompts "liquid" "water" and "fluid" or something like that. The player drawing gets assigned one of these, and wants people to make the right guess based on his drawing. Very interesting. I would play this again, but only using the high level cards. ★ Art, Iconography and components functional ☆ Clever or interesting mechanisms ★ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ★ Multiple plays stay interesting ★ Low or mitigatable luck elements ★★☆☆☆ Raw enjoyment